The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-01
HISTORIC EVENTS OF VARIOUS
NEWYEAR' DAYS.

NEW r EAR' DAYS.
On the LIST of January, 1851, the son of
Charles I. was crowned as Charles III. by
the Scots at Scone, the southern part of
the country being occupied at the time by
Cromwell with hostile army The extreme
measure of cutting off the late king and
extinguishing the monarchy was generally
disapproved of in Scotland, but in taking
up the young king the Scots were chiefly
animated by a desire OF preserving and
advancing their favorite Presbyterian
church arrangements, according to the
spirit of the famous Solemn League and
Covenant. Charles, who was then only
twenty, being anxious to get footing in
his fathers lost dominions, consented,
much against his will, to accept this Gov
enant, which inferred an active persecu-
ton of both popery and prelacy; and the
Scots accordingly received him among
them, fought battle for him against
Cromwell at Dunbar, and now crowned
him. A sermon was preached on the oc-
casion by Mr.. Robert Douglas, who had
the reputation (but upon no just grounds)
Of being descendant of Mary Queen Of
Scots. The crown was put upon the
young kings head by the Marquis of Ar
gyle, whom ten years after he sent to the
scaffold for compliances with Cromwell.
The defeat of the Scots and their young
king at Worcester, ON the Sd of Septem-
Der of this year, put an end to Charles
adventure and he with difficulty escaped
out of the country. How he subsequent
ly treated the Covenant and it's adherents
need not here be particularized.
On the LIST of January, 1860, General
Monk commenced that march from Scot
land to Lor don which was SO instrument
al in effecting the Restoration. Hestart-
ed with his little army of six or seven
thousand men from the town OF Cold
stream, in Berwickshire name which
has been commemorated in the title of a
regiment which he is believed to have
embodied at the place, or soon after.
Monk had spent about three weeks at
Coldstream, which was favorable spot
for his purpose, as the Tweed was there
fordable: but he seems to have found it
dismal place to quarter in. On his
first arrival he could get no provisions
for his own dinner, and was obliged to
content himself with quid of tobacco.
His chaplains less easily satisfied. roamed
about till they obtained meal at the
house of the Earl of Hume, near by.
On the LIST of January, 1801-the initial
day Of the nineteenth century Ireland
passed into an Incorporated union with
Great Britain, and the three kingdoms
were thenceforth styled the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland. The
expression, "initial day of the nineteenth
century," requires some thing to be said
in its defense, for many persons regard
the year 1900 as the beginning of the
present century. The year 1901 is, in re-
atty, entitled to this honor, because then
only had the previous century been COM
pleted. To make this plain, let the reader
reflect that it required the year 100 to
complete the first century, the year 200
to complete the second century, and SO
on through all that followed. To say,
then, that the year 1900 was the first of a
new century, is to be led by sound, in
stead of fact